My idea on this fish is that it is a spawned out hatchery fish that was definitely unfit for table fare...YUK!

Whether or not it "mingled" with a wild fish before it was caught is impossible to know. Basically this is the reason the state has now stopped planting hatchery fish on rivers that do not have collection facilities (traps), to reduce the possibility of hatchery fish "mingling" with wild fish.

I might add that these spawners are typically ravenous and kamikazees; I remember catching the same hatchery spawner 4 times in a single day in the tailout at Cottonwood.

Ike